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...Sigma began shipping the silvery-white metal — a key element for EV batteries — from its hard rock mine and processing plant in the state of Minas Gerais last year....
...America has just launched a $3bn programme to stimulate its chip-packaging industry, vital for manufacturing cutting-edge chips....
...TerraPower’s Natrium reactor, which is developed in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, is slightly larger than most SMRs with a power capacity of 345MWe....
...BHP’s main listing is now Sydney, but it is also a top 10 global producer, while the biggest copper miner of all is America’s Freeport-McMoRan.”...
...Congress this week banned all new metals mining concessions after holding emergency sessions, but this will not affect the existing contract....
...Chief executive Kenny Wilson cautioned that there was “an increasingly difficult consumer environment” in America....
...Political instability in parts of Latin America and Africa provided the backdrop to the deaths, campaigners said....
...GlobalLogic is already hiring about 1,000 people every month, mainly in eastern Europe and Latin America, and has recently acquired two firms in Romania and Uruguay....
...President Joko Widodo banned exports of nickel ore in 2020 in an effort to attract metal processors, battery manufacturers and carmakers to invest in Indonesia....
...The flyers were from Fengshi Metal Technology, a Suzhou-based rival that operates in similar areas of semiconductor equipment manufacturing....
...But it intends to be more than a bit-player, transforming the US into a significant supplier of the battery metal, production of which is dominated today by Australia, South America and China....
...Chinese carmakers need to find a way into North America, the world’s second-largest car market, if they want to maintain growth and keep Chinese factories filled, Dunne said....
...Sumitomo Metal Mining put its stake in Sierra Gorda on the block a year ago....
...Enterprises outside America now seek out the deep veins of capital via the New York Stock Exchange....
...In Data Drill, Amanda looks at how America’s love affair with the Sport Utility Vehicle is shaping the electric vehicle revolution....
...Chinese companies invested in lithium supply in Africa and Latin America even when lithium prices were low....
...After scaling back in South Africa, AngloGold’s operations are now focused elsewhere in Africa, Australia and the Americas....
...Hitachi has been shedding listed subsidiaries, selling Hitachi Metals to US investment fund Bain Capital and others a year ago....
...Two of the world’s largest gold miners are in talks to create a global powerhouse for producing the precious metal in the biggest takeover offer announced this year....
...company in the Americas”....
...The bootmaker’s sales growth was driven by a 31 per cent jump in North America, mainly the US, which is the brand’s largest market by some margin....
...Grains, energy and metals, all of which surged as Russia invaded in February, come to mind....
...Ron Epstein, analyst at Bank of America, said: “Aerospace has had, on average, an older workforce. If you accelerated your retirement because of Covid, a lot of those folks are just gone....
...Some years ago I was allowed into the inner sanctum of Japan Steel Works: a closely guarded operation in the northern island of Hokkaido that forges some of the largest metal ingots on Earth....
Company claims ‘milestone’ in global effort to improve the green credentials of steelmaking
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